A year-long study was conducted by a selected group of interested
people, culminating in a three-day workshop in Philadelphia in July
1985, exploring the extent to which the coverage of science in
bibliornetric data bases is adequate, and what measures could be taken
to eliminate the deficiencies in such coverage. The talk at the
conference will summarize the main conclusions and recommendations
of the final report of this effort. Since many of the recommendations
can be implemented in a decentralized way, the aim of the
presentation is to urge the individual members of the information
science community to participate in this implementation.
The recommendations are in five groups: I. Studies. 11. Steps requiring
scientific consciousness raising but minimal resources. Ill. Steps
requiring further organization but minimal resources. IV. Steps with
small and catalytic costs. V. Steps with broadly distributed costs.
They pertain to editorial practices, peer reviews, technological aspects
of publication, bibliographic control of published material, as well as to
a worldwide cooperative program to increase the number of scientific
publications produced in the Third World which are included in the 151
data base.